• Emily Roebling “Bridge Builder in Petticoats” for Children & Families

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    The New Jersey Council for the Humanities is proud to support the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage's presentation of "Emily Roebling 'Bridge Builder in Petticoats' for Children & Families" on June 17, 2025. Event Description Emily Roebling of New Jersey, who led the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, was an early preservationist of the […]

  • Colonial Crossroads in the Old Dutch Garden: African and European Music Meet

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor a presentation of music of early America at the intersection of Africa and Europe to be held at the the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage on April 27.

  • Arabella Barlow Day: Civil War Soldier’s Encampment & Surgeon’s Demonstration

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this event from the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, re-creating a Civil War encampment and offering an encounter a New Jersey soldier’s experience of the Civil War.

  • Songs of the Civil War

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this event from the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, featuring a performance of historic Civil War anthems by balladeer Linda Russell.

  • Patchwork: Voices of 19th-Century Rural Women

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this event from the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, featuring a one-woman show portraying twenty-one different rural, 19th-century women from ages 16 to 70.

  • Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth, as portrayed by Dr. Daisy Century.

  • Out-of-Doors Evening Redwood Reading Room

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is a proud sponsor of the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites’ “out-of-doors” reading room, where visitors will read and discuss selected passages from an historic author.

  • Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introducing the works of three early Black American women in words—Phillis Wheatley, Hetty Saunders, and Sojourner Truth.

  • Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introducing the works of three early Black American women in words—Phillis Wheatley, Hetty Saunders, and Sojourner Truth.

  • Three Early Black American Women in Words: A Literary Historic Houses Tour

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is proud to sponsor this tour of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage introducing the works of three early Black American women in words—Phillis Wheatley, Hetty Saunders, and Sojourner Truth.

  • Out-of-Doors Evening Redwood Reading Room

    Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States

    NJCH is a proud sponsor of the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites’ “out-of-doors” reading room, where visitors will read and discuss selected passages from an historic author.